Mobilising the Periphery: Brazil's My House My Life Programme and the Homeless Workers' Movement

Brazil's Movimento de Trabalhadores Sem Teto (MTST, Homeless Workers' Movement) has grown dramatically in recent years. This growth was partly provided for by the use of a large government housing programme, Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, My House My Life), which allowed the MTST to construct housing for its members and swell its ranks with thousands of new members. Yet some have argued that the MCMV programme used by the MTST may compromise the autonomy of civil society organisations. This article, by contrast, argues that while the MCMV programme encouraged bureaucratic practices, it also helped to promote the cultural politics of the MTST.     

公共决策中的理性:价值问题研究

本文尝试对公共决策过程中的理性,尤其是工具理性的含义、内容及其与价值的关系进行探讨,并提出理性面对不同层面的价值时有不同的反应、诉求和精神体现。工具理性在对待价值问题时所暴露出来的局限是其自身无法克服的,而且也给决策实践带来了诸多问题。     

法理学视野中的法官自由裁量权

法官自由裁量权的定位是司法改革中的重要问题。作者从法理学的角度对法官的自由裁量权进行了较全面的探讨。文章首先分析了法官自由裁量权的内涵 ,基于此 ,作者接着从哲学、法学和实践的角度对法官自由裁量权进行了考察 ,并对自由裁量权的存在根基进行了分析 ,最后就如何缓解法官自由裁量权中个性化的涉入提出了建设性的意见。     

行政指导的功能解读

行政指导是一种十分有效的现代行政管理方式,由于它具有非权力性、非强制性及可协商性等特点,因而在现实中它表现出多方面的功能:形成公意的合法化功能、平衡协调功能、补充和替代功能、协商和吸收不满功能、引导和促进功能以及预防和抑制功能.这些功能互相补充、互相支持,为行政指导在实践中广泛适用奠定了内在基础.     

科学知识进化与科学合理性--波普科学合理性理论研究

科学合理性问题是科学哲学的核心问题。为此,科学哲学家们提出了各种合理性模型,试图澄清和解决这一难题。波普认为,科学研究的目的就是追求真理,科学发展是一个通过猜测与反驳而不断向真理进化的动态过程。     

论公共性的回归与重塑

公共性与私人性作为个体存在的两种形态,是异常复杂地糅合在一起的,但在人类社会尤其是西方社会由传统走向现代的进程中,却出现了私人性超越并侵蚀公共性的现象。究其原因,传统公共性的剥削属性、浪漫主义发展、科学技术进步和工业革命的兴起都在不同程度上推动了私人性对公共性的侵蚀。这虽有利于个体理性发展和人性解放,但同时也导致了公共性的衰落,从而引发信仰缺失、私人性膨胀、合作失灵等一系列公共危机,给社会发展带来无法预测的风险。故应以西方现代化发展中的这一弊端为鉴,重新审视公共性对我国现代生活的重要性,并从公共价值观创造、公共道德培育和公共秩序规划入手,努力构建公共性与私人性和谐统一的现代生活。     

Old and New Labour Narratives of Whitehall: Radicals,Reactionaries and Defenders of the Westminster Model

This article argues that throughout its history, the leadership of the Labour Party has chosen to embrace a benign view of the Civil Service, as part of a wider acceptance of the constitutional status quo reflected in the Westminster model. There has nevertheless been a long tradition in the wider Labour movement that has questioned whether Whitehall is capable of working for a government with radical aspirations. This article examines Labour's historical approach towards Whitehall, before reflecting on the extent to which the present Administration, while appealing to radical and reforming rhetoric has, like its predecessors, continued to embrace the status quo. It concludes by arguing that a contemporary and credible narrative capable of challenging the Westminster model has yet to emerge from the broader movement.     

The politics of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: government action and public response

A decade ago it seemed likely that African governments would be destabilised by the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This article tests some of the presumptions in such forecasting with an examination of the South African case. It begins with an assessment of the effects on the public health system of the South African government’s efforts to cope with the illness. Efforts to implement universal treatment of people who are HIV-positive appear to have strengthened government, while the costs have been affordable. The efforts have extended the embrace of the public health system and prompted the engagement of civil society in policy formation and implementation. Survey evidence suggests that the government has gained public approval and that its health service delivery has become more socially accountable. Civil protest to engender political reforms in the treatment of AIDS patients has enhanced the role of constitutional checks on executive authority.     

论比例原则在行政诉讼中的运用

我国对于行政自由裁量权的合理性审查标准迫切需要重构。比例原则是大陆法系国家通过判例和理论发展起来的相当成熟的审查原则和标准,可资我国借鉴。本文研究比例原则的概念、渊源和适用领域,分析其在司法适用上的局限性,并就其在我国行政诉讼中运用的若干问题进行探讨。